Education

• 2003: Ph.D., Psychology, Department of Psychology Stockholm, Sweden
• 1998: Maîtrise, Psychology (experimental and social), Université René Descartes Paris V, Paris, France

Academic Appointments

• 2008–Present: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Sweden
• 2008–Present: Assistant professor, Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Sweden
• 2005–2008: Postdoctoral position with Brian Levine, Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest, Toronto, ON, Canada
• 2003–2005: Postdoctoral position with Endel Tulving, Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest, Toronto, ON, Canada
• 1999–2003: Graduate position, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
• 1999: Research Assistant/Memory tester within the Betula project, Department of Psychology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Professional Affiliations

• 2003–Present: Cognitive Neuroscience Society

Reviewership

Editorial Board

• 2003: Norwegian Research Council ((Scientific Secretary during the evaluation of Norwegian psychology and psychiatry research))

Research Projects:

ECT and Autobiographical Memory.
-Depressed patients who receive electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) frequently experience a certain degree of memory loss for past events (retrograde amnesia) as well as temporarily impaired new learning (anterograde amnesia). The retrograde amnesia is often temporally graded, with recent memories being lost whereas the remote ones are spared. However, it is common that there is partial recovery some time after ECT, and that the oldest forgotten memories are regained. In spite of well documented behavioral effects of ECT, there has not been any evidence of structural brain damage. The aim of the present study is to characterize autobiographical memory following ECT, to examine potential recovery 3 months post ECT, and to identify potential changes in brain structure and function (with MRI, fMRI and DTI), between pre and post ECT, that are associated with memory loss.
P.I.: Brian Levine Collaborators: Morris Moscovitch, Nathan Herrmann, Bruce Christensen, Jeff Daskalakis
The Rotman Research Institute, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada

Neural correlates of alcohol-induced memory impairment.
-It is well known that alcohol has a negative impact on memory, and particularly so on episodic memory encoding. What is less known is why this occurs, and what brain structures that are involved in this impairment. In this study, we used fMRI to scan sober and intoxicated subjects while they processed various materials, and their memory for these materials was tested the following day. The purpose of the study is to identify the brain regions that underlie alcohol's memory distorting effects.
P.I.: Endel Tulving Collaborators: Cheryl Grady, Craig Easdon
The Rotman Research Institute, Toronto, Canada

Contact

The Rotman Research Institute
Baycrest
3560 Bathurst Street, 928
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M6A 2E1 Phone: 416 785 2500 x3387 Email: hedvigrotman-baycrest.on.ca Fax: 416 785 2862